Write a choose-your-own-adventure story with AI (with three endings)
A creative AI project for kids 8 to 13: invent a hero and a world, plan the big choices, and co-write a branching story with three different endings.
- Who
- Ages 8 to 13
- Time
- 25 minutes
- You’ll make
- A story where the reader picks what happens
In a choose-your-own-adventure story, the reader makes choices that change what happens. It’s a perfect AI project because you stay the author: you invent the world and make the big decisions, and AI helps you write all the branches.
Step 1: Invent your world
Answer these before you open any AI:
- Who’s the hero? (A kid detective, a dragon who’s scared of heights, you)
- Where does it happen? (A haunted school, a city under the sea, Mars)
- What’s the problem? (Something’s missing, someone’s trapped, a storm is coming)
Step 2: Plan the choices
Keep it simple: two choices at the start, and three different endings. Draw it on paper like a tree if that helps. One ending can be happy, one funny, and one a cliffhanger.
Step 3: Ask AI to write the first part
Help me write a choose-your-own-adventure story for kids my age (I’m 11). The hero is Pip, a dragon who is scared of heights. Pip has to deliver a message to the castle at the top of Cloud Mountain. Write the opening in about 150 words, then give the reader two choices. Don’t write what happens after the choices yet.
Step 4: Write the branches together
Now ask for each path one at a time. You decide what kind of ending each one gets:
Now write what happens if the reader picks choice A. Make this path end happily, in about 150 words. Use one funny moment.
Step 5: Test it on a reader
Read it to someone and let them choose. Watch their face. Did a choice feel boring? Did an ending surprise them? Use what you learn to improve one part.
Level up: make it clickable
In Tinkertable, your coach can turn your story into an app with buttons for each choice, so readers can click through every path on a tablet or laptop.
Build this story as a clickable app
Your Tinkertable coach asks two quick questions, then builds it with you. Free to start, no credit card.
By Tom Kieley, founder of Tinkertable. Updated November 9, 2026.